Memorias de investigación
Book chapters:
Analysis of Finite Word-Length Effects in Fixed-Point Systems
Year:2018

Research Areas
  • Design of digital integrated circuits

Information
Abstract
Systems based on fixed-point arithmetic, when carefully designed, seem to behave as their infinite precision analogues. Most often, however, this is only a macroscopic impression: finite word-lengths inevitably approximate the reference behavior introducing quantization errors, and confine the macroscopic correspondence to a restricted range of input values. Understanding these differences is crucial to design optimized fixed-point implementations that will behave ?as expected? upon deployment. Thus, in this chapter, we survey the main approaches proposed in literature to model the impact of finite precision in fixed-point systems. In particular, we focus on the rounding errors introduced after reducing the number of least-significant bits in signals and coefficients during the so-called quantization process.
International
Si
Book Edition
Book Publishing
ISBN
978-3-319-91733-7
Series
Book title
Handbook of Signal Processing Systems
From page
1063
To page
1101
Participants
  • Autor: Daniel Menard Université de Rennes
  • Autor: Gabriel Caffarena Fernández Universidad San Pablo CEU
  • Autor: Juan Antonio Lopez Martin UPM
  • Autor: David Novo Laboratoire d'Informatique de Robotique et de Microélectronique de Montpellier
  • Autor: Olivier Sentieys Inria Rennes

Research Group, Departaments and Institutes related
  • Creador: Grupo de Investigación: Laboratorio de Sistemas Integrados (LSI)